ADM-201 domain - 10% of the exam

Service and Support Applications

Service and Support Applications is 10% of the Salesforce Certified Administrator (ADM-201) exam. These are the objectives it covers, each with practice questions and worked explanations.

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A company wants to accept customer emails as cases without installing any agent software behind its firewall, accepting the trade-off of a smaller limit on attachment and message size. Which capability meets this requirement?

  • AOn-Demand Email-to-Case, which processes inbound email in the cloud with no locally installed agent, subject to lower size limits. Correct
  • BWeb-to-Case, because it forwards every inbound customer email through the website form engine before a case is created.
  • CThe standard Email-to-Case agent, because it must be installed locally to receive any inbound email that becomes a case.
  • DAuto-response rules, which convert each acknowledgement email that Salesforce sends back to the customer into a new case.
Identify On-Demand Email-to-Case as the agentless option for turning inbound email into cases, at the cost of lower size limits. On-Demand Email-to-Case processes inbound messages in the Salesforce cloud without any agent installed behind the firewall, which is why it carries smaller attachment and message size limits than the standard installed agent.

Why A is correct: On-Demand Email-to-Case runs entirely in Salesforce with no agent behind the firewall and trades that convenience for smaller message and attachment size limits, matching the requirement exactly.

Why B is wrong: Web-to-Case handles website form submissions, not inbound email, so it does not turn emails into cases and does not fit the requirement at all.

Why C is wrong: This is tempting, but the standard agent is the option the company is trying to avoid, since it requires software behind the firewall; it does not satisfy the stated constraint.

Why D is wrong: Auto-response rules only send acknowledgement emails to customers; they do not ingest inbound email or create cases, so they cannot deliver this capability.

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